slim down

英 [slɪm daʊn]

美 [slɪm daʊn]

（通过节食）减肥，变苗条; 精简（机构）; 裁减（人员）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB-ERG 精简(机构);裁减(人员)
  If a company or other organizationslims downoris slimmed down, it employs fewer people, in order to save money or become more efficient.
  1. Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
     许多公司几乎别无选择，只能裁员。
  2. ...the plan to slim down the coal industry.
     精减煤炭从业人员的计划
• → see:slim 2

英英释义

verb

• take off weight
  Synonym:reducemelt offlose weightslimslenderizethin

双语例句

• And chewing the stuff might also help you slim down, according to new research from the University of Rhode Island.
  根据美国罗德岛大学的一项最新的研究发现，嚼口香糖也能帮你瘦下来。
• Many firms have had little choice but to slim down.
  许多公司几乎别无选择，只能裁员。
• Weight loss-estimated to lose weight and are trying to lose weight but have a lot of the MM, but, in and to "slim down" for a protracted war games, he was unable to see what results, which is Why?
  减肥&估计正在减肥和正想减肥的MM们可是不少，可是，在和“减肥”进行了一场场旷日持久的战争后，也未能见什么成效，这是为什么呢？
• This came after an earlier pledge to lose weight made in January on BBC Radio Sussex, in which the prime minister called his efforts to slim down a great patriotic struggle.
  今年1月，首相卡梅伦在BBC萨塞克斯电台节目中发誓减肥，说自己的减肥是伟大的爱国行动。
• Dresdner's investment bank will not be the only one to slim down riskier activities such as proprietary trading.
  德瑞斯顿银行的投行将削减像自由资金交易这样更具风险的业务，它将不会是唯一的一家。
• If you are still dieting to slim down, then you are out of touch.
  如果你还在通过节食来瘦身，那你就落伍了。
• They are now under pressure to slim down their balance-sheets quickly, partly to shore up capital and partly because of funding strains.
  但现在它们承受了迅速压缩其资产负债表的压力，这部分出于加强资本的需要，部分出于资金紧缺。
• You have to slim down your holiday plans since costs have risen so much.
  既然费用上涨得这么厉害，你们必须削减假日计划安排。
• Those already overweight at the start of the two-year course would score double points if they managed to slim down over a period of two years.
  对于在两年课程学习前期阶段已经超重的学生，如果在接下来的两年时间里能成功瘦下来，那他们可以得到双倍的分数。
• Can you slim down by kissing too much?
  经常接吻能减肥么？